(Charles) Darwin’s Law
Charles Darwin
This preservation of favourable individual differences and variations, and the destruction of those that are injurious, I have called Natural Selection or the Survival of the Fittest.
Bentham’s Law
Jeremy Bentham
The greatest happiness of the greatest number is the foundation of morals and legislation.
Bierce’s Law
Ambrose Bierce
Calamities are of two kinds: misfortunes to ourselves and good fortune to others.
Brecht’s Law
Bertolt Brecht
Eats first, morals after.
Bucy’s Law
Fred Bucy
Nothing is ever accomplished by a reasonable man.
Burns’s Law
Robert Burns
The best-laid schemes o’ mice an’ men gang aft agley.
Carlyle’s First Law
Thomas Carlyle
The great law of culture is: let each become all that he was created capable of being.
Chandler’s Law
Raymond Chandler
You can’t win them all.
Connolly’s Observation
Cyril Connolly
Whom the gods wish to destroy they first call promising.
Deighton’s Law
Len Deighton
You can’t make women happy. That’s a kind of fundamental law of the universe. You try and make them happy, and they’ll never forgive you for revealing to them that they can’t be.
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